Goal 3: Strengthen conditions for fair competition and enable greater labour mobility through decent conditions and fewer border obstacles in the Nordic Region

A central element when it comes to the competitiveness and adaptability of the Nordic Region is fair competition. This requires decent and proper conditions on the labour market and free mobility. With this follows a strong and continued effort to tackle border obstacles, labour-market crime and social dumping. The development and application of the unique, Nordic tripartite labour-market model is central to this work. So too is close co-operation around EU matters that concern conditions of interest to the Nordic Region as a whole, and in relation to generating understanding of and respect for the Nordic labour-market model and the autonomy and roles of its parties.

In order to achieve the objective of fair competition and greater labour-market mobility, the Council will use the coming programme period to place focus on:

Strengthen initiatives to combat cross-border labour-market criminality and social dumping, in part through the Nordic-Baltic Network for Labour-Market Criminality.

Promote labour-market mobility between the Nordic countries, in part by reducing border obstacles.

Ensure balance between employee protections and labour-market flexibility in part through collaboration around EU matters and with international actors with respect for the special roles of the social-partner organisations.